The Best Original Score was first awarded in 1935. The category was originally called Best Scoring and was a mix of original scores and adaptations of pre-existing material. Later the category was split into Best Music Score of a Dramatic Pictureand Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. There are so many name changes I can hardly keep up!

Boy, what a troubled production! First, Judy Garland was fired and replaced by Betty Hutton. Then leading man Howard Keel broke his leg. Then, Frank Morgan, who was the first choice to play Buffalo Bill, died. He was replaced by Louis Calhern. Then director George Sidney was replaced by George Walters, who found out he was the new director in a gossip column!

Oscar Nominations

What is this? Ray Heindorf day? This is the third movie that he conducted today! Also, when George Cohan saw the rough cut of the movie, he said, “It was a good movie. Who was it about?” The movie had deviated very far from the real Cohan.